[Mailman-Users] hold_these_nonmembers
Par Leijonhufvud
par at hunter-gatherer.org
Fri Aug 10 21:32:58 CEST 2007
Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org> [2007.08.10] wrote:
> I believe that Mark has already said that this patch (or something
> very much like it) will be added to the official Mailman code in the
> near future, so I would think that the only problem might be that
> it's not incorporated in the very next version and that you might
> have to re-apply the patch when you upgrade.
If so that is an argument in favour (except that I like the freeBSD
ports system...)
> | ... I can extract
> | membership lists with the list_members command (using sort and uniq to
> | fix any duplications) and then add them using config_list.
>
> As far as this goes, it does seem like it should work.
Good.
> | Is this a sane plan? Will the world end if someone is both a member and
> | is in the hold_these_nonmembers list,
>
> The world should not end, and Mailman should not crash.
Good one at least the latter bit (I'll leave the question open on the
first).
> | or can I use one single master
> | list of "everyone"? Which takes precendence?
>
> You should be able to have a master list of "everyone", but I
> couldn't tell you which takes precedence. You'd need to hear from
> Mark, Tokio, or Barry on that.
I'll avait an authorative comment before implementing, or code around the
problem. I culd of course run an experiment, but that would
leave a nagging doubt that things *allways* will work in the same
order.
/Par
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